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The Moral Mouse Trap
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Rather than purchasing the traps that bite my fingers...
...or the humane Peta approved kind...
...is there a trap that is easy to set and produces the right amount of destruction?
...or the humane Peta approved kind...
...is there a trap that is easy to set and produces the right amount of destruction?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousetrap#Glue_traps
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Exactly. Thanks.
or at least if you do, stomp on the rat's head
A LOT
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awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwd-oJevpw8
just buy the humane traps
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Well, sometimes it's inconvenient to transport the mice far enough away from your house, and they just end up back inside again. In older houses, mice often aren't confined to a garage or easy-to-patrol area. They wind up inside the walls, in the cupboards, etc. In that case, it's best to kill them. That's what happens outside anyway - they either die from the cold or get eaten by a hawk or other predator.
but if I was the killing type I would definitely use snap traps over glue traps. Glue traps are a miserable bitch way to kill a mouse. Would you rather get shot in the head or have someone tie your limbs up and leave you to die of dehydration? Don't be a bitch.
If you catch and release, they'll come back.
If you use glue traps, they die a horrible, horrible death.
If you use the poison traps, they get up in your walls and die, and consequently decompose there, making your house reek of rotting carcass for a long time.
Just man up and use the snap trap.
Drill a hole near the top so that a rod can be inserted in it.
Get a plastic coke bottle. Drill a hole through the cap and the bottom so that the rod can be passed through it. Make sure the bottle can spin freely on the rod.
Put peanut butter on the coke bottle, insert the rod and assemble into bucket.
Put 6 inches of water in the bottom of the bucket.
Leave a way for the mouse to get to the peanut butter.
These, or any of the ripoffs of their design.
Had some minor mouse problems at the cottage. Set a couple of these out. Couple times in the night, just a solid WHAP and nothing more. No squeak, no nothing. It's the headshot of mousetraps.
Then we brought the cats out and let them run around the place for a bit. Mice haven't come back since.
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Yeah, assuming you are hovering over it the whole time so that you can put them our of their misery immediately.
I mean... if you have that kind of time, I suppose the glue trap could be considered somewhat humane.
Just one quick peek to see if something is there, not that hard
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Unless it dies of stress rather than starvation?
I have some of those and really like them.
The first mouse we caught wasn't killed and we just let it go outside. The second one was killed.
Or only gets a single paw stuck and chews it off in a panic.
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Its how we always did it on the farm. You could catch a dozen of them in single day out in the barn with one of these.
Mice are not in any way a species at risk of extinction. They're pests and they can carry mites, fleas, and harmful bacteria. Kill them, but I wouldn't use the glue traps.
Tried this last night. It didn't work.
http://wantingkneading.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/saga-of-the-mice-humane-mouse-trap/
I mean, seriously, with all due respect, your goal is to exterminate the rodent. There is no Humane way about killing. If its got to be done it gots to be done.
That's the thing with the glue traps... they're not even necessarily effective. I've seen mice chew off limbs and escape, only to die somewhere nice and tucked away where they can decompose and stink up the place.
Your classic mousetrap is pretty fail-safe (as long as you use something like peanut butter on the mechanism that they can't just snatch without setting off the trap). Quick, easy, relatively painless, and most importantly: effective.
I'd say how I died is more important than the fact that I died.
I'd prefer to be bludgeoned by a meteor than tortured for seven years straight and then killed.
Basically, you're wrong.
So what is your point in regards to the irony of killing a mouse in a humane way? Your goal is to kill it. Bodies don't feel anything after death occurs, so who cares how it died? This is'nt exactly a cat or dog the OP is refering to here.
Considering the whole point of the thread is "What's a humane way to kill a mouse?"...
Missing the point of the thread +1.
Cultural bias and hypocrisy +1 (This isn't exactly a cat or dog? Oh dear god, if they're animals, just curb stomp them, m i rite?)
Liberal elitist attiude +5
Sorry I'm not a depressed, emo, tree hugger to really give two shits about a mammal known to be a pest in the majority of households in 1st-2nd world nations.
But the distinction between mice, cats, and dogs is arbitrary. Mice are likely more intelligent than dogs and cats, and certainly have just as much ability to suffer. The demonization of one is based entirely on which species humans domesticated, which was based purely on usefulness (to us, not to nature.)
Killing mice because they're a pest is fine, but thinking it's okay for a mouse to suffer but not for a dog or cat to suffer is hypocritical.